Monthly Archives: August 2017

Yeonmi Park: Don’t Forget North Korea

North Korean refugee Yeonmi Park gave a talk on “Life in North Korea” to a packed Festivities Hall at the University of Iceland Friday 25 August. Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson introduced Park, whose book In Order to Live has been … Continue reading

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Friday 25 August: Yeonmi Park

RNH, with the Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) and the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, holds a meeting in the Festivities Hall of the University Friday 25 August 2017 where Yeonmi Park, author of In Order … Continue reading

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Gissurarson on the Removal of Statues

There is a simple rule which should be used to decide which statues, busts, portraits and other historical symbols should be removed from public places and which should be kept there, RNH academic director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson said in … Continue reading

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Lively Debate on Small States

RNH Academic Director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson gave a paper in a workshop on international relations at the Nordic Political Science Association Congress in Odense 8–12 August. The title of his paper was “In Defence of Small States”, where he … Continue reading

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Sigurgeirsson on North Korea

North Korea is a very strange country, but she should not be treated as a joke, because the oppression there is horrible, said Jonas Sigurgeirsson, managing director of the Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) and of RNH, in an interview … Continue reading

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Lecture in Denmark

RNH Academic Director Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson gives a lecture at the Nordic Political Science Congress in Odense 8–11 August 2017 where he participates in a workshop on “Foreign Policy: Nordic Perspectives and Beyond”, directed by Tuomas Forsberg and Anders … Continue reading

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